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Kalahari

Kalahari is a Russian nawashi.

Era: 2010s

NAWASHI · ROPE MAKER

Saint Petersburg-based Russian bondage artist, RopeFest performer and rope maker. Nawapedia.ru identifies Maxim Kalahari as a Saint Petersburg bondage artist. Shibari.Guru preserves Kalahari RopeFest Peterburg traces from 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019, plus a RopeFest Moscow 2019 trace and Bondage Cafe SPb 2019 listing. RopeFest Peterburg 2026 later lists Maksim Kalahari as a fair participant selling author-treated natural-color jute ropes for shibari.

School: Independent

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: RopeFest 2010s.

Bakushi Map BETA

An interactive genealogy of bakushi and kinbaku — the Japanese rope traditions that grew from Edo-period hojōjutsu through twentieth-century SM magazines into today's global shibari scene.

People: 343
Entities: 269
Connections: 1546
Eras: 9

Each record is sourced from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a single researcher.

Beta — structure and interface are public; data is still being expanded and corrected.

How to read it

Vertical position is time: the 1800s at the top, the 2020s at the bottom. Cards are coloured by school or lineage; lines between them carry the relationship type:

deshi — direct apprenticeship
influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
card colour = school / lineage

Click a card to open its bio, antecedents and descendants. Filters in the top bar narrow by era, entity type, or relationship.

Caveats

Inclusion is selective: a person or studio appears only when there's enough public evidence to anchor them meaningfully. Missing birth years are deliberate — many practitioners don't publicise them. Errors and gaps will exist; corrections welcome at pussynawa@proton.me.

Methodology Sources

Thanks to RopeMarks, Asiana, RomKnots, Nick Freerider, Aleksei Kalatsky, Federico Kirigami, bluefeathers

Bakushi Map by Vsevolod Moreuton · · facts CC0 · text CC BY-SA · pussynawa@proton.me